Sending POST variables

How do you send post variables in php using header? If you can’t, how do you do it some other way? I do not want to use forms or javascript or anything.

I got this code off of a [URL=http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12039/fid/51]website[/URL], but there are two problems:
– It’s unacceptably slow, and
– It doesn’t actually redirect when I call the function!

Here’s the code:

[code=php]
function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
// Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
if (empty($method)) {
$method = ‘GET’;
}
$method = strtoupper($method);
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
if ($method == ‘GET’) {
$path .= ‘?’ . $data;
}
fputs($fp, “$method $path HTTP/1.1rn”);
fputs($fp, “Host: $hostrn”);
fputs($fp,”Content-type: application/x-www-form- urlencodedrn”);
fputs($fp, “Content-length: ” . strlen($data) . “rn”);
if ($useragent) {
fputs($fp, “User-Agent: MSIErn”);
}
fputs($fp, “Connection: closernrn”);
if ($method == ‘POST’) {
fputs($fp, $data);
}

while (!feof($fp)) {
$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
}
fclose($fp);
return $buf;
}
[/code]

What should I do??????

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